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Re: SYN spoofing attacks

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sun Sep 15 20:37:44 1996

From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: assis@npd.uel.br (Marcos Assis Silva)
Date: 	Sun, 15 Sep 1996 22:37:41 +0100 (BST)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, jos@xos.nl
In-Reply-To: <Pine.sun4.3.91b.-.patched.by.A.960915162859.11598A-100000@npd> from "Marcos Assis Silva" at Sep 15, 96 04:31:20 pm

>         I'm absolutely  NOT sure about  this,  so  no flames please. Just one
> idea:  to drop such  idle TCP connections wouldn't fit  like a glove into TCP
> wrappers role? If not, please tell me about it. Best regards ...

By the time it gets to tcp wrappers its too late.

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